A DETERMINED pensioner has completed a 61-mile run from London to Brighton with a broken wrist.

Rosie Swale Pope, 70, was raising funds for the Pilgrim Bandits charity, which sends severely injured and amputee servicemen and women on gruelling expeditions to restore confidence and self-belief.

She is an adventurer and marathon runner who successfully completed a five-year round-the-world run, raising £250,000 for charity.

She spends much of her time living in Hove with her family.

Other achievements include sailing single-handed across the Atlantic in a small boat and trekking 3,000 miles alone through Chile on horseback.

Rosie said: “It was an absolutely fabulous thing to do, I loved every minute of it.

“I believe that everyone’s life is a big adventure and I do my very best to keep fit and to keep going.

“Remember how precious life is.

“When you think you are beaten often you are just one step away from survival.”

She completed the run with her arm attached to a “jog pod”, which she slept in.

She said: “People were so kind because I had to find somewhere to sleep every night that was safe and comfortable.

“I spent the last night on the Downs at Ditchling and it was just lovely.”

Son James from Hove said he was proud of his mother.

He said: “My mother has achieved so much and I am so proud of her.

“Who else – at the age of 70 –would be doing so much and indeed planning so much for the future. She is a truly amazing woman.”

Rosie said she was delighted to support Pilgrim Bandits.

She said: “Ben Parkinson MBE – the soldier who lost both legs in Afghanistan – is patron and ambassador for the charity and the living spirit of its mantra, always a little rurther.

“I felt that the broken wrist, although just a small injury, gave me a chance to understand the mantra better – and try to take a little step further myself to support Ben and his family and all the fabulous Pilgrim Bandits and those who help them.

“I am in training for running from London to Berlin in early 2018 and felt if I could run 65 miles with the wrist still in plaster it would be a great way to raise awareness for this specialist military charity.”